From: The Wichita Eagle Is your husband’s avatar faithful? Quote from the site - Online infidelity was once limited to chat rooms and dating sites. But there is rising concern that virtual worlds such as Second Life and Kaneva and role-playing games like “EverQuest” can escalate the potential for and extent of infidelity.

From: New World Notes Speaking in Light: Parsec Technology Merges Voice to Second Life Interactivity Quote from the site - VOIP communication has been integrated into Second Life for nearly a year, but only a minority of the community has embraced it. For most, hearing real voices in the world feels like an artificial, external intrusion. Parsec– both an open source project and a kind of immersive musical instrument– may change Second Life forever.

From: Dedric Mauriac Havok 4 Reaches the Main Grid Quote from the site - Back in April, the Lindens (Joe Miller specifically) announced that they were upgrading Havok from version 1 all the way to version 4. Havok is the physics engine that lets objects move and collide. It allows you to stand on the second floor of a large mall without falling through the floor.

From: Out to Pasture More on Retail & Virtual Worlds Quote from the site - Reuters covered the National Retail Federation conference today, leading with “Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar-code readers on cell phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores must ride if they hope to stay competitive in the fast-changing world of global retail.”

From: DAily Breeze My virtual adventures as the cyborg Jubilation P. Lockjaw Quote from the site - We ran a feature last week that used as its prime example a 35-year-old businessman and husband-to-be who leads an alternate existence in an online computer game called Second Life, where he is known as the cyborg Lugh Dragonash.

From: Business sLife Even More on Virtual Worlds and Second Life Business Benefits Quote from the site - Second life and virtual worlds in general offer a lot of potential business benefits so Pete Dunkley and I have been idling through our Sunday pulling a few out. Here’s one that captures the business benefits of Second Life for real estate, particularly high value real estate.

From: Massively James Bond stuntman releases martial arts animations in Second Life Quote from the site - The headline is true, Marcus Shakesheff, a stuntman on Die Another Day among other films, has had a range of his martial arts moves recorded by motion capture, converted into animations in Second Life and they will be available to buy and, it appears, as part of a game within Second Life.

From: Interaction Culture Wearable Computing: Automation and Fashion in Second Life Quote from the site - Holy transcoding, Lev! One of the interesting recent developments in Second Life fashion is the increasing extent to which programming and automation are a part of virtual dress-up. An interesting example of this is a line of clothing from one of Second Life’s greatest and oldest design houses: PixelDolls.

From: Platform Second Life The first public performance of Parsec Quote from the site - One of the things I love most about my job of teaching people how to do new things and seeing what they do with that knowledge. That’s what this book is about: giving people the skills to create the applications that will make Second Life and other virtual worlds the indispensable tools I know they will one day be.

From: Educause Connect Podcast: Do I Need a Second Life? (ELI ‘08 Poster) Quote from the site - Attached is a very brief overview of a project to be presented in a poster session at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. If you would like more information after listening, please see the poster session page, visit the home page of Notre Dame’s faculty learning community on virtual worlds. or go to the island of Sophia in Second Lfe.

From: Times Online Some of my best friends are cyberpenguins Quote from the site - One of the most valuable, yet bewildering, facets of parenthood is that it often makes you feel as if you have pressed an existential “fast forward” button. Everything seems to happen so quickly. Personally, I feel as if I am still learning to breathe my way through that first contraction, but no.

From: AccountingWeb One day all taxation will be like this Quote from the site - A few years ago I wrote a chapter on taxation for a book on e-commerce. At much the same time tax authorities the world over were setting up committees to advise them on its implications. But it turned out that questions about eBay and distance selling could be answered under the existing rules, and those committees faded away. So did the e-commerce book.

From: ABC News International cyber crime experts meet Quote from the site - The forensics conference will bring together more than 60 cyber crime experts from around the world.

From: Virtually Blind Ginko Financial Selling Server on eBay Quote from the site - According to the official site, Second Life’s Ginko Financial is selling a rackmount Xeon 5160 server on eBay. The opening bid is $3200. The auction is listed by a user with the name “Hinoserm,” which matches up to the former Ginko employee who blogs here.

From: Second Life Blog Phone Support Issue Quote from the site - Second Life Phone Support is currently experiencing an issue that may result in inability to connect or dropped calls on the Concierge line. We are working on resolving this as soon as possible.

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